Logical productivity view management

A method for productivity view management comprising:

• receiving, by a processor, a plurality of electronic collaborative artifacts of an online communications system for a user, wherein each collaborative artifact of the plurality of collaborative artifacts comprises an email, a wiki page, an electronic chat, a post to the online communications system, or an event in an electronic activity stream;
• organizing, by the processor, the plurality of collaborative artifacts in a list based on a predetermined order;
• presenting, by the processor, on an electronic display, at least a portion of the list of the plurality of collaborative artifacts based on a determined display area of the electronic display;
• scanning, by the processor, a content of each collaborative artifact using natural language processing to concurrently determine a numerical value for each of a set of characteristics associated with each collaborative artifact, the set of characteristics comprising a complexity of each collaborative artifact, a length of each collaborative artifact, a formality of each collaborative artifact and whether the collaborative artifact requires an action by the user, wherein the numerical value determined for each of the set of characteristics associated with each collaborative artifact correlates to an expected processing time of each collaborative artifact;
• assigning, by the processor, a weight to each collaborative artifact based on comparing the numerical value determined for each of the set of characteristics for each collaborative artifact with one another, wherein the assigned weight corresponds to at least the expected processing time for the user to process each collaborative artifact;
• determining, by the processor, a view management fatigue factor threshold for the user;
• in response to identifying by the processor, based on the assigned weight of each collaborative artifact within the list of the plurality of collaborative artifacts, a specific collaborative artifact after which the determined view management fatigue factor threshold for the user is exceeded, automatically inserting, by the processor, an electronic downtime artifact within the list of the plurality of collaborative artifacts after the identified specific collaborative artifact to prevent the user from exceeding the determined view management fatigue factor threshold;
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• graphically distinguishing, by the processor, on the electronic display, the automatically inserted downtime artifact from the plurality of collaborative artifacts within the list of the plurality of collaborative artifacts.